Ezra pollard



NITED STATES PATENT Fries.

EZRA POLLARD, OF ALBANY, NEv YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND D'. XV. SEELEY. OF

. NE YORK, N. Y.

PESTLE FOR CLEANSING CLOTHES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 22,451, dated December 28, 1858.

To all whom 'it ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, EZRA POLLARD, of Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pestles or Pounders for Cleansing or Washing Clothes; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1, is a Vertical and central section of a pestle or pounder constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2, is an inverted plan of ditto.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention I will proceed to describe it.

A, represents a circular head or stock of requisite thickness and B, represents a series of tubes which are fitted at one end in the head or stock A, parallel with each other and in planes parallel with the handle C,

as shown clearly in Fig. l.

The handle as well as the head or stock A, and tubes B, may be constructed of wood, and the tubes may be of any suitable dimensions, the proportion of the above named parts may be about as shown in Fig. l.

The tubes B, may be fitted in the vhead or stock A, at equal distances apart, as shown in Fig. 2, and in the upper' parts of the tubes near the head or stock, apertures a, are made, see Fig. l. The lower edges of the tubes B, may be rounded so as to prevent the clothes from being cut as they are forced down upon or brought in Contact with them.

The pestle is used in the ordinary way, the clothes being placed in a suitable tub or vessel with a requisite quantity of suds and the pestle operated by hand or otherwise. As the several tubes are forced down on the clothes the water is forced through the texture of the clothes and with the dirt held in suspension is allowed to pass up int-o the tubes, the water is also forced through the clothes between the tubes, and the pestle will therefore be rendered very eflicient, for the bearing surface of the pestle is distributed in narrow surfaces over its whole area, and greater spaces allowed for the water to pass through the clothes and wash the dirt therefrom. If the pestle were composed of a series of solid cylinders, the only place for the water to pass through the clothes as the cylinders strike them, would be between the cylinders. This latter form of pestle has been used, and although preferable to the old solid pestle, it is not for the reason above stated, as eflicient as mine. rlhe apertures a, allow the air to escape freely from the tubes as the latter are forced into the water so that. the air cannot offer any resistance to the water in passing through the clothes, and the water will not be splashed about and over the side of the tub as would otherwise be the case.

I do not claim a pestle formed of a series of parallel and solid cylindrical projections fitted in a head or stock for that or its equivalent has been previously used, but,

Having thus described my invention, claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

As an improved article of manufacture, a clothes-pounder or pestle composed of a stock A, handle O, tubes B, and openings (a), herein shown and described.

EZRA POLLARD.

litnesses M. H. PARSONS, B. B. lVI-IALEN. 

